[s_morrison57]

My great uncle was the ADC to Gen Crerar, (pronounced as Sear) he was in charge of the Canadian forces in the European theatre and he sent my uncle to help with the planning of D Day. We had pic's of uncle Finlay with Churchill, Mountbatten, Eisenhower, we had a newspaper clipping of uncle Finn in the back of a jeep, driven by Gen. Crerar and Gen. Eisenhower was in the passenger seat, another clipping of the King of England giving my uncle his MBE for his part in the D Day invasion, Elizabeth was in the pic too, in a few years she would be the Queen. It was D Day + 3 before uncle Finlay went to France, they were worried about capture - he knew the whole plan. Uncle Finlay saved things like "orders to report", invitations to different functions etc.. a paper trail of his time overseas, he also had a camera and had pic's of every soldier under his command, he was a Lieutenant and served with the South Saskatchewan Regiment. When U Finn moved into the old folks home we found all his WW2 stuff and he said to donate it to the regiment. Cousin Mac said the historian for the regiment wept when he was looking through the things Finlay had saved, it was the pic's that had the most impact, he could put a face and a bit of info from the back of the pic's for every soldier that served in the regiment during that time period , many of whom didn't return.
Uncle Finlay survived the war, got a Phd. and taught chemistry at the University of British Columbia, retiring after 35 years as Dean of Pharmaceutical Science. He passed away at 100 years old late in 2017.
D Day never passes as just another day in my family, its the day we honor and remember not only my uncle but all the men and women that took part in the Normandy invasion.
Thanks for letting me share that bit of family history.
Finlay "Finn" Morrison